Why does humidity make temperature feel hot, but restaurants use misters to cool the patrons?

Question

I live in a town with a lot of humidity in summer. I perspire a lot, but restaurants around here have misters outdoors to “cool things down”. How does that work? How can adding more humidity make the heat more tolerable?

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Answer 1

It takes heat energy to turn liquid water into vapor.

Humidity is water that has already been turned to vapor.

Misters spray small drops of liquid water, which then evaporates. Since it takes heat to evaporate, this cools stuff down.